Daúto Faquirá

Daúto Faquirá

Personal information
Full name	Daúto Xaharmame Amade Faquirá
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	S.C. Olhanense (Manager)

Daúto Xaharmame Amade Faquirá (born 26 December 1965) is a Portuguese football manager and the current manager of S.C. Olhanense.

Career

Faquirá has two University degrees in Physical Education and Sports from the Technical University of Lisbon, with specializations in Ergonomics and Football. In addition Faquirá has achieved the 4th level degree as an official UEFA PRO. His mother language is Portuguese, yet he is also fluent in English, French and Spanish. Faquirá has over 15 years of teaching experience in PE while he played football for US Sintrense in the Portuguese Second Division during the late 1980s before embarking on his career as a manager.

Coaching career

Putting his previous experience as a teacher and football player to practice, Faquirá had his first professional experience as head coach for Sintrense and immediately afterwards began a successful career path which culminated in a climb of Division. Having begun his career as head coach in the season 1995/1996, with Sintrense, Faquirá remained in the club until season 1998/1999, at which point he left the club, having accomplished all that had been asked of him, which was to push the club out of 3rd Division and into 2nd Division. This he achieved in the season 1997/1998.

During the football season 1999/2000, Faquirá changes club and becomes head coach for Odivelas. His success is immediately defined by two consecutive climbs of Division: In the 1999/2000 season Odivelas is consecrated champion of the Honorary Division, climbing up to the national 3rd Division. With his team newly ascended to a superior division, Faquirá surprises once again by immediately obtaining another promotion, this time taking them from 3rd Division up into 2nd Division B, in season 2000/2001.

The following year, Faquirá achieves the best ever classification of Odivelas in 2nd Division B, finishing the season 2001/2002 in 4th place. In 2002/2003, Daúto Faquirá leaves Odivelas, but he leaves his team defeatless.

At the beginning of the 2003/2004 season, Daúto Faquirá becomes head coach for the “historic” club Barreirense, and wastes no time in achieving a climb of division. Having finished the 2003/2004 season in 2nd place of the competition, Faquirá and Barreirense climb division in the 2004/2005 season, achieving a 1st place in the competition and getting Barreirense in the Honorary League.

Having once again finished a project in a successful manner, Faquirá goes to Estoril in the 2005/2006 season, but finds himself in a club that is pitifully submerged in a deep economic crisis. This leaves him no choice but to abandon this project, and so, in December 2005 he leaves the club, sadly much earlier than expected.

The following year, Daúto Faquirá reaches the height of his successful path by reaching 1st Division, escalão principal, to coach Estrela da Amadora, where he goes on to achieve 9th place in the 2006/2007 season. Due to this he receives the title “Revelation Coach of the year”. During the second season of Estrela da Amadora, despite a terrible economic crisis, Faquirá manages to maintain his team in its totality despite them having 5 months delay in salaries being paid. Despite these terrible conditions, he manages to phenomenally push his team through to an incredible 10th place in the championship of the 2007/2008 season.

There no longer being any economic conditions to sustain the Estrela da Amadora project, Faquirá heads to Vitória Futebol Clube for the 2008/2009 season, but has to abandon the project at the beginning of 2009 vfc.pt - Rescisão entre Daúto Faquirá e Vitória Futebol Clube, 15/01/2009http://www.sport24.com/football/championnats-etrangers/portugal/clubs-portugal/e-amadora/dauto-faquira/_var_/1/ Sport24 - Dauto Faquirá]File:Http://www.portugoal.net/index.php/more-olhanense-news/11140-faquira-takes-over-at-olhanense Faquira takes over at Olhanense

Daúto Faquirá wrote history with SC Olhanense by guiding the 1st Division Team to a surprising second rank after seven league matches, ranking just behind FC Porto.